“rp

. a too-big land.

“imean L admire i it..

(or at least non-French speaking)

may,
. is to exert the maxiinum Gating

“possi ie] And the payoffs it holds

eo ‘ / ‘
_A- Wedoesday, June !, 1983 ~/ North Shore News

1 STILL say it is a measure of the Canadian insecurity.
complex tha ‘we are getting so spooked about the free trade

On balance, 1 think’ the pact sin “). When Canadian writers and’ ;
liberate us from the peculiar} “|. filmmakers operate through the ”
bondage of being a small people i in American cultural system, they see ,
7 /., their works magnified to incredible
dimensions.
What does it amount to to be |
_> published or shown in Canada
anyway? .

Canadian crities eat their young
alive. There is a reverse Canadian
snobbery at work in the arts which
runs to the effect that if. it's Cana-
dian, it can’t be really good. |

Thus a Canadian artist has to -
seck recognition at.another level or .
- he will never honestly be acknowl-
‘edged, except as a kind of side- ;
show trucked out on state octa-
sions.

When I hear nationalists like
Mel Hurtig, the Edmonton 7

_. publisher, rail against free trade, :
- my: back stiffens. on

Here isa guy who has pulled i in

more money in subsidies from the

/ We havea Nordic streak i in us —.
‘akind of sulfen ‘apathy, a fatalism.::
We are suspicious of-greatnes
* Suspicious of | fate, even. On
guard, indeed! . :

. This can be self-limiti

“| understand the emotional need
for Quebecquois to pull i into a8
Musk oxen, circle, but that doesn’ t

‘The idea that English‘speaking

Canadians have to behave like the
* French i is ‘ridiculous. Quebec has.
its agenda, Let us have ours.”
“Ours frankly, should be to
“mine” the American colossus
even ‘as she reams us. If we area
‘mo! se in bed with an clephant, I
iddyup, elephant!

ponder salary hike

. NORTH VANCOUVER pisiriel

Council’ s wages have fallen below
other _ municipalities and should
- catch up to. comparable amounts
over; two years, a community task
force committee recommends. :

"But. district council. voted to.
speed . up; the catch-up perigd to:

one year instead of two. | ,

“They should be good wages to.
: attract high calibre candidates,"’

Ald. Joan Gadsby told; council
~ Monday; !

The report; compiled ;/by com-
munity groups, recommends that

_ the mayors indemnity be increased

from $34,814 to i$39, 900 in the °
“first year, and to $43 236i in the se-"
cond year. An/ alderman’ s salary
fwould |increase from $10,900 to
* $11,690 over the same peried.

i Voting against jhe catch- “Up,

"Mayor. Marilyn Baker said ‘there is |
no “‘basis or rationale for the: ins

”

i What concernd me is what I've
seen: -happening/?throughout the

. _ Lower Mainland? leapfrogging -

’ whatever the best guess is.

i Baker. said tHat by speeding up
the catch-up period to one. year, ©
‘council: has gone one step further

than” “what the task’ force/recom-

... federal government than any other of

-publisher in history, and what are
"we to. expect from Mel? A sur- |:
prise? That he would be in favor |
vot free enterprise? Give mea: |
" break. as
* The self-servingness of Mel Hur- :
Hw tig’ 's position speaks | to the condi-
“tion of the entire cultural industry
_community, Lad /
He who lives by the Public teal,
« dies if it dries up. © %/
‘The Canadian publishing i in-
dustry’ as a whole i is desperately
“nervous ' because, without, sub- ,

they would survive,
‘The Canadiin movie indus}
‘such as it is,' lives off Telefilm: mf 4 |
| funding. The terror, is that su¢h ye
 haiidouts will eventually bejthrown’!
_ out, and without them, no/Can
“dian movies will happen fe all.
8 “At the mo! the film in-
. dustry i is' more robust than it has ,
~ ever been, but it is larg zely because
“the Canadian dollar Has been so’
low relative to the Yanquis buck. j
-° Our film industry i is almost el
tirely Pr othe fi of ¢ course.

influence on the U.S.-You a

centralist’ coalition ontrolling the’
rest of the! country as‘a kind of : A
anada’s film ay live an :
‘work in the United States. That s
wher: hey carn what! ‘actress che

‘purely state-run ‘ecoriomly. ;
: Every time some group gets it in
its mind, that the gq vernment is hs
ing to ‘help them,‘ they'don’t realize
they’ re playing aie wittla

“out, whi le elusive, are something «
“that. ‘writers in other countries

the world: Books published in,’
\meri o generally speak

mends. She said she is “disap-
“pointed that couricil approved part
of the report's: recommendations
and then Tushed ‘ahead with the
rest.’

mayor and West Vancouver mayor

make about’ $34,000'and $36,000 a,

year respectively, while serving
communities: of only half the pop-
ulation of the District.

Mayors : of, municipalities with
comparable ‘populations. carn
significantly more, The mayor of

Coquitlam; for example,’ earns ap-

_ proximately $51,176.

The task force ‘comimittee con- =

_sisted of representatives: of all ac-

“tive ratepayers associations and the.

North ~Vancouver a hamber of

» Commerce. .

4 Part’ of the committee’ s findings
showed that during the B.C. reces-
sion. mayoral and: aldermanic in-
demnities on the North Shore were
tozen.’ For three years beginning

in 1984, West Vancouver instituted -

substantial increases; North Van-
‘couver City followed in 1985. But’
‘the District delayed increases until /
1986 and 1987, and the amount of |:
the j increases was "much smaller

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